165 Quotes by Joshua Bell

As my career has gone on, I guess I've become more well known. I'm playing to fuller halls in general, which is a nice feeling. When you're doing that, you're going to have a certain number of people who are not just the hardcore classical fanatics, and this makes me very happy.

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

It really helps to play with someone like him who's very spontaneous and always trying new things in the concerts. You have to always be aware of what the other person is doing and play off of that.

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved.